Women in Islam: The Western ExperienceWomen in Islam investigates the ongoing debate across the Muslim world and the West on the position of women in Islam. Anne-Sofie Roald focuses on how Islamic perceptions of women and gender change in Western Muslim communities. She shows how Islamic attitudes towards social concerns such as gender relations, female circumcision, and female dress emerge as responsive to culture and context, rather than rigid and inflexible. |
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Abı according al-Alba¯nı al-Bukha¯rı al-Ghazza¯lı al-Qarada¯wı Arab cultural base Arab Islamists at-Tirmidhı at-Tura¯bı attitudes authentic az-Zuhailı Badawi believe concept contemporary context covering cultural base pattern Da¯wud Darsh debate discussion divorce European Fatima Mernissi female circumcision female leadership fiqh fitna gender relations hadith literature Hasan hija¯b Hjärpe husband Ibn Abba¯s Ibn Kathı¯r ideas ideology ijma ijtiha¯d ikhwa¯n influence interpretation Islamic feminists Islamic law Islamic Liberation Party Islamic scholars Islamic sources issue Jamal Badawi jilba¯b Khadı¯ja khima¯r Koranic verse law schools majority society male marriage matter men’s Mernissi movement Muhammad Muslim Brotherhood Muslim feminists Muslim women Muslim world Musnad Ahmad narrator chains non-Muslims organisation particular political polygyny Prophet qiwa¯ma refers regarded religion religious role Sa¯biq salafı says Sayyid Qutb sexual Shaqqa sharia Sheikh social Sunan Sunna tend texts traditional translation understanding various veiling western cultural base whereas wife wives woman women in Islam